Thread: Task of the month for June 2010

ADVANCED TASK COMPLETED!

Well, it's been a while since I've done one of these, but here I am again! I hadn't necessarily even intended to do either of these tasks since both are rather simple (in my estimation), but hey, last night the mood struck, so why not?

A quote from my dream journal:

Originally Posted by LiveInTheDream's Public Dream Journal

Since I was already Neo, I bent low to the ground, which sent small waves out from under me, just before I shot straight up into the sky, phasing right through the ceiling to get there.

"Let's see, what was that task of the month? Oh yes. Pyrokinesis. I think I'll skip on the mushroom patch...Neo just doesn't seem to fit in that scene."

I reached my hands up over my head and formed a large flame in between them. Since I had nothing better to burn, I threw it down towards the store I'd just been in and watched it explode as I continued to feed fire into it from the palms of my hands.

Thank you, thank you, it was nothing...

Nice job

Been wanting to get a Task done for a while now, and during my WBTB this morning I managed to get them both = )

I was walking back from where i used to get dropped off the bus from college at, and saw a pile of school bags lying on the ground beside the road, as I went over I saw lots of money around them as well, all in coins. I started to pick it all up and wondered where it came from, I came to the conclusion that some kids from the local primary school (right near where i was) must have had their bags stolen and dumped here. I continue up the street to where we live and my Dad's there, I tell him that someone from the primary school must be robbing kids and he says something to the effect of: "I don't care". I'm quite dumbstruck from this reaction and continue... "But they're probably being bullied". "So, they probably deserve it!".

I start to get quite upset at this and then think, hang on, Dad's nothing like this, I wonder if i'm dreaming? (this is actually the first time i can think of that someones actions have caused me to become lucid)

I do the 'hold your nose and breath' RC just to double check, and then go flying off down the road, while Dad 'frisbees' Rubbish bin lids at me and i dodge them (wierd i know).

I fly into one of our paddocks (we live on a farm) and wonder what to do with myself now that I'm lucid. There's some Bulls around so i say to myself, hey, lets headbutt one!

I crouch down, imagine my head as a solid metal object, and charge the thing. Just as I get towards it, the bull goes 'Baaaaa' (species confused bull it seems) and just as I'm about to hit it, it gets blasted away without me actually feeling any collision. I'm wondering what to do next when I remember the lucid task.

Mushrooms! Since mushrooms actually naturally grow on our farm occasionally it's not hard to picture it, I then walk through the gate and see a ring of them on the ground, which I walk through and then eat one.This old lady comes out of nowhere and starts talking to me, she's wierd, like a troll or something, and I then remember the 2nd task and decide to try and flamethrower her. I clasp my hands out and conjure fire in them then try and direct it at her, but it gets taken away by the wind a bit and isn't really that powerful. The old lady says something like "I can only do fire crystals too" as I manipulate the flame into a more 'powerful' shape, but just then my alarm goes off in real life and I wake up.

Pretty happy to have great lucidity and get 2 of my tasks done, will have to aim for some of the Yearly ones later in the month = )

I will try both tonight

Last night, I was able to complete the advanced Lucid Task. But the thing is, it was an accident.
I didn't realise until after I summoned fire that it was in fact the Lucid task of the month.
So anyway here is the dream.

I was skating on my skateboard down the motorway towards my Dad's work (which is a caryard) in the pouring rain. I just kept skating until I finally arrived. As I skated to the entrance of the work, I noticed that the tall fences with barbed wire on them had half fallen down, like they were on 45 degree angles. This made it completely impossible to get inside to see my Father. Then all of a sudden, I realised that this made no logical sense and that it must be a dream! I was completely positive that it was a dream because of the feeling of my surroundings (If that makes sense). I contemplated whether to do a reality check but then decided that it's a good habit to form so I blocked my nose and tried to breath, which to no suprise suceeded. I then decided that it should be easy to get through this fence and see my Father with my now Lucid state. So I proceeded to form the "Scissor" action with my hand and tried to cut through the fence. I mustn't have believed in it fully because it did nothing. I then decided that burning down the fences should be an easy way in. So I closed my eyes, focused as hard as I could on summoning fire and when I heard a crackling, I opened my eyes and found that the fences were flaming embers, so I just kicked it down whilst it was on fire and proceeded to walk up to the entrance of the caryard. As I was walking up, I realised that what I did was in fact the Lucid Task of the month and made a mental note to write this down later.

OK, I managed to do one, Pyromancy. This is not a new one for me as I have already had several LD's were the easy solution to a problem is to burn through it. Here's the dream:

I was water skiing, not yet lucid. I looked down and noticed that my ski were not but a foam type boogie board. We were in a lake and I noticed a very jagged, rocky edge on the lake. It seemed to go strait up and there was no vegetation. I crashed and was under water for a moment and could see nothing. The water was very murky. As I layed on my stomach on the boogie board, I noticed little currents going by pushing me down a very small byway that looked as though it lead into a swampland marshy area, maybe a creek of small river is how I would discribe. All my friends from the boat that had been skiing me around had circled back and were now cheering me on to catch these currents. One of the women on board actully said to me "They will take you to where the dream wants you to go." This instantly made me lucid. At this point I knew I could leave this particular dreamscape because everytime I become lucid that does cross my mind but I preferre to see were my own subconscious was planing on taking me so I catch the first currnt and for how small and unnoticable they were, they actully moved me across the surface of thr water pretty quick. As I catch the first one, my friends cheered , claped, hugged each other and one of them actully started making out with another one (there was probably beer involved. me and abunch of friends do go on the boat on the weekends. They are a craziy bunch) Anyway, I made it into a very small, murky grey bit of water surounded by tree's and plants. It was dark but still daylight and I felt as though something was in the water with me. The water under me was very deep and I got off the board to see if I could stand in it. I could but it was up to my neck and what I was standing on felt like it was moving and alive. I quickly jumped out of the water and stopped investigating the water, I could tell I did not want to know what was under the water. A couple of feet away, there was another little tiny bit of shallow water on the forest floor and a small grey allagator was resting in the middle of it. The creature was not your typical gator. It was shorter in lenth but had more bulk. He almost looked like a huge version of what we in the south call a horned lizard



This creatue sat and look at me, looked up at what looked to bats flying under a small canopy that the lizard sat under. About 5 feet over his head. One bat came down, too close and the beast attacked. A firey whip tounge came from its mouth and touched it's prey in a way that just singed it enough for it to fall strait to mouth. I was still lucid and the fire made me remember one of the challenges! To create and control fire with my mind, I went big this time. I consintrated and could feel my body heating up. It was hot and hurt. I could feel some burning pain. Fire bursted out of me in an Atomic explosion and the entire forest was destroyed. Sand tured to glass beneith my feet. Everything around me was dead and I could see the lake. I walked to the edge of a rocky cliff. looked down and saw that I was high above the lake. I could see my friends in the boat and they were being attacked by what looked like a giant Grouper. I walked away and tryed to manifest myself into a mushroom patch. It did not work and everytime I opened my eyes, I couild see only one mushroom on the ground surounded by grass. The rest of my dream was me playing cards. I do that sometimes because I play the game so much in reality. The lizard in the dream had some aligator features but just looked distorted. Horned lizard was the best desciption.

I have not been having the best LD's latly due to how much stress I go though on a daily basis but things do change. I'm suprised I was even able to become Lucid with how stressed I am.

Also, the ppl in the boat were not my typical friends that I go out with. I did not know them.
I;m going to go look a images of Mushroom patches now.

for some reason my post keep disapearing?

Sounds great! I'm a new member and I'll see what I can do.

i was at a farm and suddenly became lucid (MILD), i thought: time to do the lucid task and my dream goal! ok, my dream goal was to go through a wall, i started walking looking for a wall to try it and i saw some wooden houses, i went there and the dream became 3rd person, but i wanted to do it in 1st person. I made it go to 1st person and it became again 3rd person, then i shouted: stay in 1st person, damnit! Then it stayed in 1st person, and i was close to a house now, i went in front of the window and walked through it sucessfully!
Suddenly appeared 3 guys with guns trying to shoot me, and i thought: now its the time to try the TOTM, i aimed at them with my hands open and tried to shoot fire, nothing happened, i said : come on! I started to shoot fire like a flamethrower with my hand and it became 3rd person, i had a crosshair like in a game (i think im playing too much Red Dead Redemption xD) and i was pwning them, and soon the house started to burn in flames, i thought: now im going to a mushroom field, but i woke up.

Looks like I'll be getting to work huntin' for shroom patches! And burning them, I suppose. XD

I DID IT YAY!!!!!!!!! i cant believe it i believed i could do all this in my dream and i did yay lol

Nice job all, everything should be caught up soon

Umm... does this count? Because I heard that you can only count the task of the month done if, when in a dream, you think "Ooh, I should try to do the TOM!" and then do it...

A fragment of me ripping off a huge poster and crumpling it into a ball. I throw it to the ground and now there is a huge crumpled paper on the ground. I think that I should try setting it on fire. I snap my fingers near the ball and see with unusual vividness (and slowness too, actually) how sparks from my snap fly, how a fire forms and catches on the ball quickly enveloping the whole paper in flames. Imagine this in slow-motion, cause that's how I saw it and see it before my eyes now. I think while looking at the ball of fire, that this just maybe could count as the task of the month, since I remembered about it straight after performing pyrokinesis.

Originally Posted by Ayrwen

Umm... does this count? Because I heard that you can only count the task of the month done if, when in a dream, you think "Ooh, I should try to do the TOM!" and then do it...

Easy answer that you can find out yourself?

Were you lucid? Whatever you response is, will be the same for "does this count?"

Originally Posted by PercyLucid

Easy answer that you can find out yourself?

Were you lucid? Whatever you response is, will be the same for "does this count?"

Yup, I was lucid.

My first time at accomplishing a task of the month! Did the advanced task and failed at the basic. Here is an excerpt:

*Then I remembered the task of the month and felt ready to try pyrokenesis again. I went outside and there were a bunch of people having a barbecue. Actually, many barbecues. There were barbecue grills and burning logs everywhere. I thought it would be fun to start up one of the grills with pyrokenesis and surprise the people, but I couldn't find a fire that wasn't already burning. So I found a really big log that was burning on a metal stand. I tried shooting fire out of my hands but only made smoke. So I started manipulating the fire on the log with my mind, making the flames grow higher. I tried shooting flames again. I felt a warmth and then a rather uncomfortable heat move down my arms to my hands and I pushed my hands out in front of me. Sparks flew out of my palms and exploded on the burning log. I tried a few more times until I got some legitimate jets coming out of my palms. They were like large bottle rocket flares. Problem is, it hurt! It felt like I was spewing acid out of my hands. So I figured I had accomplished the task and it was time to move on. What was the other task? Walk through a mushroom patch? I started looking around for mushrooms in the long grass I was standing in. I found some tiny white ones, but not anything you could call a mushroom patch. I somehow ended up back inside the house and thought about going back out to look for mushrooms. Wouldn't it be cool if they were glowing mushrooms? I had to squeeze back out between a counter and the door. I realized I could leave the door open because I was dreaming. It was dark out. I saw a faint blue glow around the corner of the house and tried to make a mushroom appear when I walked around the house, but the glow was just coming from the grass. I decided to give up on the mushrooms and just take a walk.

Advanced Task - Use pyrokinesis

And I was worried I wouldn't have time to do a task this month.

I don't suppose it counts if I did it in a non-lucid in the first week of June? No? Okay, I'll go do it again.

/egotism

I did the basic one:

I wake up and DEILD. I find myself levitating in my living room. I drop to the group and dash around on the floor using telekinesis on different objects. The dream is about to destabilize so I stop and look at my hands. I remember the task to walk through a mushroom patch. I turn around and see lots of black mushrooms growing out of my floor. I walk through the patch and get to the window.

Come to think of it, I don't see two badges on anyone, not just us.

*Shrooms*
I was in the DDO village of Korthos. I looked around and thought that was strange. I looked down at myself. I was wearing armor like one of the DDO characters. I was in DDO! Wait a minute… that wasn't right… DDO isn't a virtual reality system… The only way DDO could be this real is if I was dreaming, so I did a RC and found out I was dreaming.

I wanted to go with Tigress on this DDO dream. I wondered where she was. I thought maybe I would have to go get her. But I spotted her almost right away. I wasn't sure what character I had, but she was in the form of Envee… one of her characters that is a rogue. We left the town. Tigress said she had a quest. So I followed her for a while and we reached a cave. We went inside and wandered around for a bit, killing some kobolds as we came across them. The kobolds seemed pathetically weak. We came into a large chamber that was filled with large mushrooms. They were huge. We wandered into the mushroom patch, which was more like a forest. We wandered around for a while, seeing no sign of another way out or of any enemies. The forest of mushrooms was more like a maze. And we were completely lost in it. I thought climbing up one of the mushrooms might give one of us a view of where the exits were… but how does one climb a giant mushroom?! We were still wandering through the mushrooms when I woke.

Completed the advanced one too:

I'm wake up by flashing red lights from my REM-dreamer. I lay completey still. I see dreamscape forming in front of my eyes, I extend my dream arm to pull myself in, it works. I'm standing on my yard, there is snow everywhere. I remember the advanced Totm. I try to breathe fire. Nothing happens. There are two DC's standing around, one man and one woman with dark hair. They're both holding skiing equipment. They start laughing as I fail to breathe fire over and over again. Finally i see some smoke, but no flames. I turn around and try to put a house on fire using mind control. I leap into the air in frustration. In the reflection of a window high up I can see flames, I turn around, the whole building is one fire. I turn the other way, thinking about setting another building on fire, it works, it bursts into flames. There is a head stuck in snow, not quite human. It has one big green eye and a funnily shaped beak. I approach the head and sit down in the snow. Through a glass door I can see people walking around, apparently we're in a different dimension. The head greets me, I ask for advice on what I should do with my life. The head answers: "This may not be your place in life". "Where should I go then" I reply. "South" it replies. "To a place more sunny?". "Possibly". I thank the head and hug it, I close my eyes and wake up.

Wow, lots of people doing it this month

So, is there anything more I need to do to get my super-special badge and orange name and all that?

^Obviously not